The Power of the Near-Death Exprience, Part One,withElizabeth Krohn December 24, 2024Elizabeth Krohn is coauthor, with professor Jeffrey Kripal, of Changed in a Flash: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All.
Andrew Paquette: Rigged! Mathematical Patterns Reveal Election Database Manipulation |646| November 1, 2024https://skeptiko.com/andrew-paquette-rigged-mathematical-patterns-reveal-election-database-manipulation-646/
Reincarnation and RobotswithBen Goertzel November 1, 2024Ben Goertzel, PhD, is author of many books on artificial intelligence including Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really Really Try; Engineering General Intelligence, Vols. 1 and 2; The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind; and The Path to Posthumanity. He is also editor (with Damien Broderick) of an anthology about parapsychology titled, [...]
Understanding Your KarmawithEdi Bilimoria October 25, 2024Edi Bilimoria, DPhil, FIMechE, CEng, is a Consultant Engineer and has been Project Manager and Head of Design for major projects such as the Channel Tunnel. He is a Trustee of the Scientific and Medical Network, Adviser to the Galileo Commission of the Network, a Trustee and a Council Member of the Francis Bacon Society, [...]
Toby Walsh: AI Ethics and the Quest for Unbiased Truth |645| October 23, 2024https://skeptiko.com/toby-walsh-ai-ethics-and-the-quest-for-unbiased-truth-645/
Alex Gomez-Marin: Science Has Died, Can We Resurrect it? |644| October 16, 2024Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class expert on consciousness who isn’t afraid shatter dogma. This brilliant physicist-turned-neuroscientist is challenging the status quo, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of consciousness by working with a subject who can see even though blind from birth. In this dialogue with Alex Tsakiris, host of Skeptiko, we explore the frontiers of post-materialistic science [...]
Allan Kardec’s Spiritism October 13, 2024Let’s dive into the life and work of Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism, exploring the philosophy, history, and impact of this 19th-century movement. Kardec, a French educator, sought to bridge the gap between spirituality and science by codifying Spiritism—a system based on communication with spirits, reincarnation, and moral evolution. We examine his key works, [...]
Skeptiko 643 Bernardo Kastrup on AI Consciousness October 9, 2024If we really are on the brink of creating sentient machines, we might want to have a logically consistent understanding of what a sentence is… and heck, we might even want to look at empirical evidence for an answer.
Christof Koch, Damn White Crows! |639| September 11, 2024Renowned neuroscientist tackled by NDE science.
What if AI is unsustainable? |637| August 30, 2024Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution podcast |637|